Turkey's 'Obsession' With Removing Assad Hurts Turkish Interests
Posted 2014-10-19 05:32 GMT
Turkey's "obsession" with removing the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria -- as an unnamed US official has described -- rather than making the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) a priority, has nothing to do with Turkey's national interests but is about sectarian solidarity with Sunni groups and reviving the hope of taking up a leadership role in the region, according to analysts
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